place

Constituents of the space of navigation include places, which may be buildings or parks or piazzas or rivers or mountains, as well as countries, planets or stars, on yet larger scales. Places are interrelated in terms of paths or directions in a reference frame (p 9). Places [are] configurations of objects such as walls and furniture, buildings, streets and trees...(p 10).

The divisions of the world, recognized. e.g., as place names, landmarks, rasters, polygons, reporting zones, tessellations, etc. 'At the centre of all spatial analysis is the concept of place. The Earth's surface comprises some 500,000,000 sq km, so there would be room to pack half a billion industrial sites of 1 sq km each (assuming that nothing else required space, and that the two-thirds of the Earth's surface that is covered by water was as acceptable as the one-third that is land); and 500 trillion sites of 1 sq m each (roughly the space

(an object) exists at some absolute place or position within the latitude and longitude coordinates shown, and at a place relative to other objects or areas (p 174)